Dream Big and Go For It

As a runner, you’ll fail lots, and you’ll fail publicly.  That’s part of the point.

 

You will have crap races?  Race anyway.  You will get injured?  Run anyway.

 

So go for it.  Run with passion, race fearlessly, chase your craziest dreams without caring too much about how  realistic they are.  Do that, and yeah, you might fail.

 

And that’s pretty much the whole point.

Sheridan WY

2017 DNS.  2018 DNF.  3 times lucky?

January 5^th.  Alarm set.  Registered before sell-out, third year in a row.  BIGHORN!

Custer’s Last Stand (an hour away).  2019: my last stand.  Know what to expect, getting it done.

Never soooo much MUD in my life, this year SNOW & water crossings.  Heavy winter in the high country.  Purchased Lekis (trekking poles).  NO fear, ready to battle.

Friday flight to County Airport Sheridan.  Easy afternoon of diner food, introspective walk downtown.  WYO Country.  Real deal here.  No Deadwood shoot-out for tourists.  Honest cowboy vibe.

Best Western bib pick-up.  32-mile tag retrieved.

New year, new distance.  Start 3 hours later than the 50 (past two Bighorn attempts).  Most miles  logged EVER (life-to-date), last year’s DNF.  [Didn’t quit, missed the time cut-off.]

No pre-race museum, no Nat’l Park drive.  Serious face this year.  Game on.

Early to bed, early to rise.  45-minute drive to Dayton.  6am school bus from Tongue River Valley Community Center.  Head demons tamed.  Unfinished business.